HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR

Position Type :

Secondary / COUNSELOR - SR HIGH

Date Posted : 9 / 5 / 2024

Location :

Lawton Senior High School

Closing Date :

open until filled Job Objectives : Serve as liaison between parents and school personnel

Minimum Qualifications : To effectively work with staff members to counseling students.

Skills and Abilities Required :

• Hold a valid Oklahoma Secondary Counselors certificate
• Responsibilities and Essential Functions :
• Clearly understands and adheres to the School Counselor Code of Ethics and Oklahoma Accreditation Standard VI.
• Enroll students, using knowledge of learning abilities and adolescent development, while preparing them for academic success and developing an appreciation for lifelong learning.
• Facilitate in course and subject selection in relationship to their ability and quality of school achievement while setting academic and career goals.
• Serves as liaison between parents and school personnel and services.
• Understands and communicates how to successfully plan, prepare for and enter post-secondary education and / or employment by forming tentative career goals and implement strategies to achieve them.
• Guides students in their participation in school and community activities.
• Expand study and test-taking skill opportunities for state and nationaltests for all students.
• Works with students to learn and practice skills and techniques for decision-making and problem-solving in school and in the community that support positive health and safety choices.
• Demonstrate, examine and analyze how interpersonal communication affects relationships with peers and adults.
• Serves as member of the school's Counselor Advisory Committee which creates and maintains annual documentation of school counseling services.
• Constructs a specific school program and prepares a clearly articulated school counseling program with supporting documentation.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

EMPLOYMENT TYPE : FULL-TIME, PERMANENT